Commerce Accountancy
Accounting Principles and Practices
2,324 Questions
Accounting principles and practices involve the preparation of trial balances, ledgers, and bank reconciliation statements. This area tests your knowledge of fundamental accounting concepts and routine business transactions. It is a core section in commerce exams and various competitive tests.
Ledger accountsTrial balance preparationBank reconciliation statementAccounting conceptsPrimary books of accounts
Accounting Principles and Practices Questions
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Explanation: Management accounting provides information to the management for all the functions of management—planning, co-ordination, control etc and not simply a single function
B
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Explanation: Budgets are prepared and provided by the accountants to the management to plan, implement, review and take control measures.
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Explanation: Financial accounting recognizes the transactions as happened. Management accounting recognizes inflation and its effect on the transactions in the company
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Explanation: External economic and social factors particularly in these days of globalization influence the operations of the business. Hence they are appraised by the management accountants.
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Explanation: Management accountant is also a controller and in this sense he has to properly interpret the financial statements
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Explanation: Financial Accountants prepare the books of accounts as prescribed by the statute. Management accountants classify and codify them for the purpose of analysis and interpretation
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Click F12 > Activate Purchase Order Processing > Select Accounting Vouchers > Alt + F4
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Click F11 > Activate Purchase Order Processing > Select Accounting Voucher > Alt +F4
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Click F11 > Activate Purchase Order Processing > Select Accounting Voucher > Alt + F5
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Click F12 > Activate Purchase Order Voucher > Select Accounting Voucher > Alt + F5
B
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For purchase order voucher, we have to click F11, then activate purchase order processing by clicking yes. Then we have to select accounting voucher from gateway of Tally and click Alt + F4. Purchase Order Voucher screen appears.
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Accounting Vouchers > F7
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Accounting Voucher > F4
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Accounting Voucher > F5
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Accounting Voucher > F6
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All non-cash transactions are entered in journal voucher. From Gateway of Tally, we first select Accounting Vouchers and then press F7 for journal voucher. For example, depreciation on machinery which is a non-cash transaction and is entered in journal.
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Display > Accounts Books > Sales Register
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Display > Account Books > Purchase Register
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Display > Statement of Accounts > Outstandings > Receivables
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Display > Statement of Accounts > Outstandings > Payables
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Outstandings from debtors is the amount which is due from debtors, that is the amount which is still left to be paid by debtors. To show outstandings from debtors we have to select display, then statement of accounts, outstandings and receivables.
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Display > Accounting Vouchers > Sales Register
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Display > Statement of Accounts > Sales Register
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Display > Account Books > Sales Register
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Display > Account Books > Purchase Register
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We have to select display from gateway of tally. Then we have to select account books and then sales register. In sales register we get details of sales month wise like total sales in month of April, May, June etc.
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Sales ledger
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Purchase ledger
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Customers ledger
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None of these
D
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Sales return accounts are typically recorded in the Sales Return Book, which is a subsidiary book, not a specific ledger like the sales or purchase ledger.
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Purchase day book
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Debit side of cash book
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Journal proper
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None of these
C
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The Journal Proper is used to record transactions that do not fit into any other subsidiary book, such as credit purchases of assets like machinery.
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Opening entry
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Closing entry
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Adjustment entry
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None of these
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Customers ledger
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Master ledger
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Suppliers ledger
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None of these
C
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A total creditors account (or creditors control account) is maintained to summarize the balances of all individual creditors. This is typically found in the suppliers ledger or creditors ledger.
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Dual aspect
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Realisation concept
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Entity concept
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None of these
B
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The realization concept states that revenue is recognized when the legal right to receive it arises, which happens at the time of sale, regardless of when cash is actually received.